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Best Rapper Alive - 1992
- Thread starter Inspect Her Deck
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Yeah I'm voting Cube, but don't sleep on Treach is all.yeah but Death Certificate
I haven't heard that album in decades. I need to cop that next time I see it at the record store.
Inspect Her Deck
Skins of all colours come together as brothers
4th and 5th place finishing should be interesting. Not much break through made there yet.
Black_Panther_JS
Superstar
Most actual songs
Black_Panther_JS
Superstar
Oh yah Mobb Deep (uh)
You wanna fukk with us
You Little young ass motherfukkers
Don't one of you nikkas got sickle-cell or something
You're fukking with me, nikka?
You fukk around and catch a seizure or a heart-attack
You better back the fukk up
Before you get smacked the fukk up
This is how we do it on our side
Any of you nikkas from New York that want to bring it,
Bring it.
But we ain't singing,
We bringing drama
fukk you and your mother fukking mama.
We're gonna kill all you mother fukkers.
Now when I came out, I told you it was just about biggie.
Then everybody had to open their mouth with a mother fukking opinion
Well this is how we gonna' do this:
fukk Mobb Deep,
fukk Biggie,
fukk Bad Boy as a staff, record label, and as a mother fukking crew.
And if you want to be down with Bad Boy,
Then fukk you too.
In terms of verses:
He's not on Let Me Ride, the day the brehs took over, Deeez nuts, a breh witta gun, rat a tat tat, lyrical gangbang, high powered
That's 7 songs out of 12.
Drop A Gem On Em
Oh yah Mobb Deep (uh)
You wanna fukk with us
You Little young ass motherfukkers
Don't one of you nikkas got sickle-cell or something
You're fukking with me, nikka?
You fukk around and catch a seizure or a heart-attack
You better back the fukk up
Before you get smacked the fukk up
This is how we do it on our side
Any of you nikkas from New York that want to bring it,
Bring it.
But we ain't singing,
We bringing drama
fukk you and your mother fukking mama.
We're gonna kill all you mother fukkers.
Now when I came out, I told you it was just about biggie.
Then everybody had to open their mouth with a mother fukking opinion
Well this is how we gonna' do this:
fukk Mobb Deep,
fukk Biggie,
fukk Bad Boy as a staff, record label, and as a mother fukking crew.
And if you want to be down with Bad Boy,
Then fukk you too.
Pax got murdered on wax
Inspect Her Deck
Skins of all colours come together as brothers
Nope unless you use a search function. But I can tell you we have the following MVP results so far:
1987 - Rakim
1988 - Rakim
1992 - tbd
1994 - Nas
1998 - DMX
2000 - Ghostface Killah
2009 - Raekwon
2013 - Pusha T
2015 - Kendrick Lamar
98 for DMX? Not bad, which place did big pun take? He was one of the most complete rappers ever, capital punishment is criminaly underrated.
I wonder how 93 will look like, it was snoop dogg and wu tang. Whole group would beat snoop, but comparing each artist alone snoop should win by a landslide.
Inspect Her Deck
Skins of all colours come together as brothers
Pun finished 3rd I believe? Just search "Best Rapper Alive - 1998".
Yeah 1993 will be interesting for sure.
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
From 91-93, b real should be on this list, breh.
He arguably was the best from 91-93 and was the hardest working with the highest quality per single output in the greatest run of twelves for an album ever in rap history.
Which was only rivaled by common sense work ethic wise at the time and in that sonic landscape and period.
It is kinda criminal you left him off this year. As the only person skill wise to rival red as a debut emcee or artist was b real and common for that sonic landscape and era as far as high quality output in that era song to song.
B real
Common
Red
Were on another level for the styles era as solo guys or in b real'a case song to song as the lead in a group.
Art Barr
He arguably was the best from 91-93 and was the hardest working with the highest quality per single output in the greatest run of twelves for an album ever in rap history.
Which was only rivaled by common sense work ethic wise at the time and in that sonic landscape and period.
It is kinda criminal you left him off this year. As the only person skill wise to rival red as a debut emcee or artist was b real and common for that sonic landscape and era as far as high quality output in that era song to song.
B real
Common
Red
Were on another level for the styles era as solo guys or in b real'a case song to song as the lead in a group.
Art Barr
Inspect Her Deck
Skins of all colours come together as brothers
From the OP:
There's only one real pre-requisite. You must have a project released in that year (whether an album, mixtape, EP or similar). This matters more to me than it does to you guys since I'm making the poll options, but just so y'all know this is the angle I'm coming from. Snoop Dogg cannot be in contention for 1995 for example.
As B Real/Cypress Hill do not have an album in that year, I can't put him for eligibility. But he will be on my 1991 and 1993 lists for sure, and maybe 1995 too.
As for Common, I was seriously considering him but his debut wasn't quite as strong as his other 90s releases (Resurrection and One Day...). Nobody has even requested him anyway so he's not getting votes.
Who's your MVP for 92 breh? If your option ain't on the list, you can request someone to vote for.
The list isn't exhaustive bud. Like there may be options I have forgotten or I've left some spaces out in case someone asks for a certain artist. I've left it open to changes and amendments.
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
If you are the curator for this.
you should be on point and know this shyt.
First off you do realize twelves play a huge part in all this.
Especially, when if cypress never won the only real rap award ever won by a real cultural group was the billboard inaugral rap group award cypress won and changed the rap industry with as well.
In that era of cypress goat twelves..
common had the best solo twelves for artist in this era.
Especially for this era.
as again all this shyt was slow burn and real talk.
Common sense cibad was dope, breh.
Anyone saying different was not there and is a resurrection fan going back in time.
Plus could not have been there to be on the classic twelves from there either.
Soul by the pound, the original was the hardest beat in that era as well.
Plus common is the best remix solo artist of the styles war era as well.
Not to mention, common, cypress and red were never MTV or bet darlings and earned their way.
as opposed to prison industrial complex artist like nbn to dre were exclusively, then.
Common and red earned their number one vid slots on rankings and went for a number of weeks..take it ez ruled just as long as blow ya mind did as a video for that era and time.
Especially when compared to everything is gonna be alright and ain't nuffin.
As, originally those two were the only shyt played on MTV at that exact time, as a daytime add.
before MTV later would grav to the "urban" side of things.
Not to mention common was on relativity incomparison to defjam.
Building this up from the same actual physicals in store release day as Redman, and the chronic logistically in the store on the real first day on shelves for real.
along with red, del, and buckshot common was included with the new crop of guys.
who were also excellent response and pr grassroots interview guys as well.
Art Barr
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